The PJ (poor joke) above might no longer remain a PJ if banana peel is replaced by a typical problematic situation one encounters in daily routine. The question remains unanswered then: Why do some people find it difficult to act beyond cure? They do think 'Prevention is The Best Cure' though! I was no different from them! But now my journey is gathering speed, hopefully in the direction that the blog is supposed to drive towards. Checkout my other blogs and work at http://www.worldOFkaizen.com/
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Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 August 2017

How important is a strategic plan for business?

Everyone out there is to sell something to someone. That's called as business in business language.

In today's VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world the sellers seem to outnumber the buyers. If yet not, then they will eventually do. Because, Everyone out there is to sell something to someone.

Naturally, it's important to answer a few questions before setting out to do business without bankruptcy.

How to do business with limited access to resources?

That's where comes the role of strategy.

In order to evolve strategy you need to probe into yourself as also into your business environment. It'll help you to do PEST and SWOT analysis as they say and do in business. PEST and SWOT you need to do both at personal as well as business level.

You need to know Where you want to go?
With what (offering) and how?

In order to do this adequately, you should've heard and read the VOC Voice-of-Customer.

Strategies derived earlier will help you to translate the VOC into delivery of the delightful offering to customer duly differentiated from competition and of course with cost leadership. Unless, of course, you want to drive volume leadership at calculated loss by design.

Now you need a daily control over the strategy to stay ahead of competition and stay successful sustainably.

Tuesday, 15 March 2016

About my first book World-Of-Kaizen

"World Of Kaizen"!!!

My first ever book but surely nor the last one.

The book was inspired by the revolution, rather the continual improvement evolution in Japan post the second World War.
Japan rose like a "Phoenix bird from ashes" as they say.

The cover picture was inspired by the Japan story.

What do you see in the cover picture of the book?

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder as they say!

One may derive a simple meaning out of the picture.
Someone else may see immense complexity in it.

Author sees immense power in the Kaizen (continual improvement) philosophy that helped Japanese to create a new world from their status 'in ashes' prevailing then, post the World-War-II.

Whatever may be the 'current' status, good or bad at any given point in time. But when people come together with a common goal for common good, most often the best comes out for 'the better'.

See the rising Sun in picture.

Sun gives energy to the world.
It gives energy to the human being. 
The energy could be gross or subtle.
Gross one has power to make her physically and mentally strong.
Subtle energy has power to 'awake' the 'Sun' inside a human being.

And when such 'Internal Sun' arises, nothing is impossible.

When more such 'enlightened' human beings are or get enabled to come together, team-work in its true sense happens with the speed that no one can stop.

Great things happen thereafter!
Problems such as poverty, terrorism, even planetary worries such as global warming, appear dwarf then.
New world can evolve even out of the dirt!!

That's the "World Of Kaizen"!!!

Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder: Please do consider leaving a comment or sharing this post.

Crying? It's time to kick-it-off!
Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !! 
Strategise To Achieve Targets Daily 
Does recognition really matter 
IQ-EQ-or-SQ: What-is-more-important?
Do you know a Best-Career-Plan 
Take your career in fast lane
Succession-Plans In Fast Lane!  
Treat Root-causes, Not Symptoms ! 
Nauseous Communication Gaps 
Do You Cleanup-After-Crisis 
Raam or Krishna-Shyam: Tell me Hey Raam! 
Will It Work Here?  
Some Moron ! Some Great !!!   
That's How Morons Work
You seem Reasonable if you appear Un-reasonable 
Smart-Moron Who Breaks Your Glass  
WOW Work-Culture: By Telling or Selling 
Suggestions On-Sale, None-To-Buy 
Can-changing-thoughts-change-a-nation
Ridiculous Poison-culture versus Maverick Kaizen-culture 
Tolerate Once, Twice, Thrice? 
Make checklists your friends  
Make It Simpler, Rest Will Follow 
How To Make A Difference 
Big-Be Or Bug-Be ! 
customer gets what s/he deserves: Shoddy Quality
Listen to iceberg of VOC to acquire customers

Monday, 4 November 2013

Do You Celebrate Mean-or-Green

My Mad-ness.. Bad-ness.. Goodness ... !

5000 km long queue of trucks full of solid-waste everyday by cities alone?

Wonder how much got added to the normal daily-garbage during a typical Diwali festival-day in India?: The crackers, the aesthetic components of primary & secondary wrappers of chocolates, sweetmeats, etc. gone into garbage!


How much does such madness of generating waste cost?

In 2010, it costed equivalent of Pakistan's GDP i.e. it costed $ 205 billion to deal with just the solid-waste world-over!

How much does other kind of waste cost?: 
I don't know the answer.

How much does land quality get deteriorated?:
I don't know the answer.

How much does such waste impact other environmental aspects such as contamination of drinking water, air, depletion of energy resources used to dispose the waste, etc?:
I don't know the answer.

How much does it cost and will it cost in terms of health issues in future?:
I don't know the answer.


Many such questions rise like smoke!

It may be easier to find answers if the questions are like 'smoke of a fire in seed-stage' kind problems. Unfortunately the smoke is of 'the fire that is already a wildly raging one' that has reached beyond human control. 

Google search may help find the answers. But the answers so far have been inadequate and incomplete! Research had been unable to keep pace with pace of problems rising due to consumerism! Queue of the garbage trucks otherwise wouldn't have been so long equivalent of covering aerial distance between London and NewYork.

By the time Newtons and Einsteins of the world perform difficult part of finding well-researched inventive-solutions, the only proven 'Zero-Garbage' action everyone can easily participate in to prevent waste is to make their celebrations innovatively Green!


Let's celebrate and recognize each such person who celebrates Green, each such day and each such moment that is celebrated Green!


Here's a MaiKu© poem while on the subject:

Rain Goddess lost destination
It's all raining perspiration
Cause lack of Green Celebration


©MaiKu Is My-Haiku
Freely ideate it's poetic rhymes
Any objective topic it chimes


Also read a few relevant blogposts hereunder:
Wish To Be Planet-Friendly?: Save!
Aesthetics Spills-Over Function, Want Spills-Over Need (Part-1)
Aesthetics Spills-Over Function, Want Spills-Over Need (Part-2)
Functional-Aesthetics
Bust-wants, Boom-needs
Do you exercise your choice meaningfully
What You See Isn't What's Made
You seem Reasonable if you appear Un-reasonable
Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !! 
Taken-For-Granted ? You Deserve It !! 

Monday, 14 October 2013

The Business Of Businesses

It's a good idea to break from routine. 
Breaking from routine is an opportunity to learn new things.

This is particularly true when one goes on tour. 
One is forced to take various travel modes at odd times at times. That's the time secrets of various 'businesses' unfold provided the traveler looks around making powerful observations.

The other day early in the morning, commute from railway station to my destination was via a temple by the roadside. I saw a couple of people standing over a heap of flowers, garlands, etc. 

My God, they were literally brooming the God's idol!

Worth noting and mulling over is a secret that is actually no longer a secret to some: Flowers as well as God/Godesses to whom they are offered to, transmitting Devotional ‘Bhava‘ or Emotion of ‘Surrender’ and Faith, literally get mistreated. The former gets transhiped to (the planet as) garbage bin. Or it gets dumped as a waste into the sea while disposing it off along-with the latter. The pictures that one receives on whatsapp during the Ganapati or Durga festival are a testimony to this.

Here are a few more learning's that I have expressed in the form of a poetic rant.


The Business Of Businesses

धंद्या धंद्याची बात

हाती च्यायचा पेला
कामकरी निघाले धंद्याला

मस्त त्या (एका) पहाटेला

लागंताच ट्रेन प्लॅटफॉर्मला
सोडून लगेच च्यायचा-पेला
आला हमाल  लगेज उचलायला
च्याय-गरमच्याय-गरम.. बोला
ए-~कोला भजी वडा पाव.. बोला
कोकल्ला तो मधेच, ए-~कोला
मासळी बाजारातून  त्या पाय मी काढला

बरें झालें बूवा ! 
हाती च्यायचा पेला
कामकरी निघाले धंद्याला

"येणार का घोडबंदरला"
गरजला रिक्शावाला
"कुठे जाणार बोला"
दूसरा मधेच पचकला
मी, "जाणार मीटरने तर बोला"
"ओ... मी नेतो चला" 
तिसरा मधेच कण्हला
सोडताच गिरहाईकाने रिक्शाला

वाह क्या बात !! 
हाती च्यायचा पेला
कामकरी निघाले धंद्याला

ढूर्र .. र .. र .. रिक्शा निघाला
कट तेवढ्यात स्कुटरने मारला
धक्का (लागे speed breaker) बसल्या बैलाला
गाढव अधेमधेच अडकला
ट्रॅफिक जॅमच की रे झाला
घाईत नेहमीच तो पेपरवाला अन् ऑफिसवाला
डबेवाला अन् पोलिसवाला
ऐक्सिडेंटची कोणा परवा कशाला

अरे, काय चाललेयरे !!! 
हात् तीच्या , यायचाय की अजून पेला 
कामकरी तर निघाले धंद्याला

रस्ता 'साफ करवूनी' आता
रिक्शाने "मोसम" (स्पीड )मारला
दिसे एक मंदिर हायवेच्या-कडेला
वाटे पाहून ढीगभर फुल-कच-याला
नवी मुर्ती तर नाही (लावली) पूजेला ?
थांबलो क्षणिक नमस्काराला
तर देवा-देवा अरे-देवा, शॉकच बसला
लागून नवीन गिरहाईकाच्या तयारीला
झाडूने साफ करीत होता रे देवा तोमूर्तिला
धंन्द्यालाच की लावला (त्याने) तूला

क्या बात क्या बात !!!! 
हाती च्यायचा पेला
कामकरी निघाले धंद्याला

The poem refers to various businesses such as tea stalls, taxi, rickshaw, temples, etc.

What was the learning in the morning?

The picture itself raised a few questions in my mind.

1/ Shouldn't we force ourselves to rethink and to relearn the differentiation among Blind-Faith, Emotions, the Emotional Ways-&-Means of Devotion and the Rationality of rituals particularly when they are performed for the sake of rituals?

2/ Aren't there better and environmentally-friendly ways to express Devotional ‘Bhava‘ or Emotion of ‘Surrender’ and Faith (Sharanagati and Shradda) towards the supreme power?

3/ When will rational thoughts prevail over emotional ones?

Hope someone has tips, suggestions or answers to the questions such as above. The answers are the learning: A new dawn in the 'The Business Of Businesses!'